El-hadji Lamine Bayo Collection

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This collection consists of manuscripts, images of the community (Belfort, Ziguinchor, Senegal), and video interviews at the Hotel Le Néma-Kadior (Ziguinchor, Senegal) with the manuscript owner, El-hadji Lamine Bayo.

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This manuscript is a collection of several panegyric poems (Arabic: Madḥ) praising Prophet Muhammad. The poems celebrate his struggles, virtues, and success in the nascent days of Islam. They are written in Arabic with ...

This manuscript is a contemporary copy of a 19th century manual of divination sciences in Mandinka Ajami. Divination sciences are popular in Muslim Africa. They are known in Senegambian Mandinka communities as Ramuloo (from ...

This item consists of a collection of several small manuscripts with recipes and remedies to address people’s problems. The social preoccupations that the manuscripts seek to address include: infertility among women, how ...

This short Mandinka Ajami manuscript contains special prayers and techniques used to address specific problems. The manuscript includes names of Prophets, the companions of Prophet Muhammad, and angels. The manuscript was ...

Part 2 of a video interview with the manuscript owner (El-hadji Lamine Bayo) at the Hotel Nema-Kadior in Ziguinchor, Senegal. These interviews were conducted on January 9, 2018, by Mr. Ibrahima Yaffa with El-hadji Lamine ...

Part 1 of a video interview with the manuscript owner (El-hadji Lamine Bayo) at the Hotel Nema-Kadior in Ziguinchor, Senegal. These interviews were conducted on January 9, 2018, by Mr. Ibrahima Yaffa with El-hadji Lamine ...

Responses from the interview conducted by Mr Ibrahima Yaffa between the manuscript owner, Abdou Karim Thiam, and and Arabiatou Biaye (second wife to manuscript author Nimbaly Thiam) describing the relationship between the ...